Jean-Louis Moncet (born 30 July 1945, in Rabat, Morocco) is a French motorsports journalist.
He is mostly known for his work on Grand Prix racing for French television and magazines.
Newspapers and magazines career
editIn 1969, he joined the French popular newspaper France Soir for the South of Paris region, where car races were organized on the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry.
In 1971, he became chief redactor of motorsport magazine Sport auto, with Gérard Crombac.
In 1973, with a Sport auto team composed of Gérard Crombac, Thierry Lalande and Luc Melua, he built a kitcar in one week-end.[1]
In 1990, he joined Autoplus magazine as sport chief redactor.
TV career
editFrom 1982 to 1990, each week, he was a regular contributor to the AutoMoto program on the French TV station TF1.
From 1990 to 2013, for every Formula One Grand Prix, he served as an analyst, a pre-race interviewer, a pit reporter or a post-race interviewer on the French Formula One broadcasts (on TF1, TV5, and Canal+) with French drivers such as Patrick Tambay, Jacques Laffite and Alain Prost.[2]
Starting in 2014, he served as a pre-race interviewer on Canal+.
Others
editIn 2008, he opened his Formula One blog.[3]